(March 1960)
Archie,
1950 Series
- Price
- 0.10 USD
- Pages
- 36
- Indicia Frequency
- monthly
- On-sale Date
- 1959-12-31
- Publisher's Age Guidelines
- Approved by the Comics Code Authority
- Indicia / Colophon Publisher
- Close-Up Inc.
- Brand
-
Archie Series
Issue Notes
On-sale date from 1960 Periodicals, Copyright Office, Library of Congress.
[no title indexed]
Betty and Veronica / cover / 1 page
- First Line of Dialogue or Text
- Trying It On
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Both Betty and Veronica attempt to don a coat while Archie holds it.
- Reprints
-
in Archie: The Best of Harry Lucey (IDW, 2011 series) #1 (August 2011)
-
Sporting Chance
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Hiram Lodge; Archie Andrews; Jughead Jones
- Synopsis
- When Mr. Lodge hears Betty's lament that she can't compete for Archie against Veronica's money, he gives her money equal to Veronica's weekly allowance so they'll be on equal terms for one week.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #19 (September 1976)
- in Archie's Double Digest Magazine (Archie, 1984 series) #15 (March 1985)
-
Please Rush Slowly
Betty / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Archie makes a pass at Betty.
- Reprints
- in The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #34 (August 1985)
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #52 (December 1991)
-
Marriage Mirage
Jughead / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Jughead Jones; Veronica Lodge; Betty Cooper
- Synopsis
- Jughead gives his opinion on marriage.
- Reprints
- in The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #34 (August 1985)
- in Betty and Veronica Comics Digest Magazine (Archie, 1983 series) #52 (December 1991)
-
My Fortune for a Fortune
Betty / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Swami Riba
- Synopsis
- Betty gets her fortune told.
Calling All Spacemen
Leroy / comic story / 0.5 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Leroy; his friend
- Synopsis
- Leroy spots some aliens in a hairdressers.
Out-Dated
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 7 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews
- Synopsis
- Veronica breaks her date with Archie because he's broke. When Betty hears this, she goes running to him, cash in hand, ready to replace Veronica.
- Reprints
Crazy, Man, Crazy
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 4 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle
- Synopsis
- Reggie and Betty hatch a plot where Betty pretends she's lost her mind, hoping Archie will feel sorry for her and dump Veronica for her.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #4 (May 1976)
-
[The Giant Anteater]
Nature's Notebook / text article / 1 page
- Genre
- non-fiction
- Synopsis
- Article on the giant anteater.
- Reprints
- in The Jughead Jones Comics Digest (Archie, 1977 series) #2 (September 1977)
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #61 (August 1983)
-
Chew Chew
Li'l Jinx / comic story / 1 page
- Genre
- humor
- Characters
- Li'l Jinx; Greg
- Synopsis
- Jinx makes lunch for Greg.
- Reprints
- in Laugh Comics Digest (Archie, 1974 series) #4 (May 1976)
- in Archie's Double Digest Quarterly Magazine (Archie, 1982 series) #3 (July 1982)
-
Sweet and Lovely
Betty and Veronica / comic story / 6 pages
- Genre
- teen
- Characters
- Betty Cooper; Veronica Lodge; Mr. Weatherbee; Miss Grundy; Archie Andrews; Reggie Mantle; Jughead Jones; Moose Mason
- Synopsis
- Betty unintentionally manages to get everyone else in trouble.
- Reprints
- in Archie Comics Digest (Archie, 1973 series) #18 (June 1976)
-
Indexer Notes
Among the absentee students Miss Grundy names on page 3 are (Frank) Doyle, (Joe) Edwards, and (Victor) Gorelick, all of whom were Archie Comics contributors at the time. She also names Javits, perhaps a reference to Jacob Javits, US Senator from New York at the time.
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Table of Contents
-
0.
["Trying It On"]
Betty and Veronica -
1.
Sporting Chance
Betty and Veronica -
2.
Please Rush Slowly
Betty -
3.
Marriage Mirage
Jughead -
4.
My Fortune for a Fortune
Betty -
5.
Calling All Spacemen
Leroy -
6.
Out-Dated
Betty and Veronica -
7.
["Wake Up"]
-
8.
Crazy, Man, Crazy
Betty and Veronica -
9.
[The Giant Anteater]
Nature's Notebook -
10.
Chew Chew
Li'l Jinx -
11.
Sweet and Lovely
Betty and Veronica
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- Steve Coates
- Igor Dybzinski
- Merlin Haas
- Dan Kocher
- Mike Nielsen
- Jim Van Dore
- Jaime Weinman
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